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to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
flavour
1. n. (British spelling) (standard spelling of flavor, flavor)
2. n. (British form) standard spelling of flavor
The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.
Flavour was added to the pudding.
What flavour of bubble gum do you enjoy?
The flavour of an experience.
Debian is one flavour of the Linux operating system.
3. v. (British spelling) (standard spelling of flavor, flavor)
4. v. (British form) standard spelling of flavor
food
1. n. Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
The innkeeper brought them food and drink.
2. n. A foodstuff.
3. n. (figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.
The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought.
Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
11. adv. -->
12. n. alternative form of withe
spices
1. n. plural of spice
2. v. en-third person singular of spice
spice
1. n. Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
2. n. (figurative) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging.
3. n. A synthetic cannabinoid drug.
4. n. (Yorkshire) Sweets, candy.
5. n. (obsolete) Species; kind.
6. v. To add spice or spices to; season.
7. v. To spice up.
8. n. (nonce) plural of spouse
herbs
1. n. plural of herb
herb
1. n. Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.
2. n. A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.
If any medicinal herbs used by witches were supposedly evil, then how come people from at least the past benefited from the healing properties of such herbs?
3. n. (slang) Marijuana.
4. n. (botany) A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season
5. n. (obsolete) Grass; herbage.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
salt
1. n. A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
2. n. (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
3. n. (uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
4. n. (slang) A sailor (also old salt).
5. n. (cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.
6. n. A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
7. n. (obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
8. n. (obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
Attic salt
9. n. (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
10. n. (figurative) Skepticism and common sense.
Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.
11. n. (Internet slang) Indignation; outrage; arguing.
There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.
12. adj. Salty; salted.
salt beef; salt tears
13. adj. Saline.
a salt marsh; salt grass
14. adj. Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
a salt mine
The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
15. adj. (figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
16. adj. (figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
17. v. To add salt to.
to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter
18. v. (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
The brine begins to salt.
19. v. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
20. v. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
21. v. (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
22. v. (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.
23. v. To include colorful language in.
24. v. (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.

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